Rea, Nicholas – Une Saison en Enfer.
(Rea, Nicholas) Une Saison en Enfer. [Inspired by the poem of] Arthur Rimbaud. Laser printed illustrations from original watercolors by Nicholas Rea. Published in England by Nicholas Rea and David Graves. [London. 1990.] 21″ x 15″. The images have been mounted (sewn) on Zerkall laid archival paper. Zerkall archive paper for the laser prints and pages. Handsewn, bound in deep green handmade Japanese Mingei and Unryu papers, yapp edged, with black sewn spine by Nicholas Rea. Dropback box of maroon buckram with title in color on spine. No. 10 in an edition of 10 similar but not identical copies numbered and signed by Rea. Fine.
Nicholas Rea is a Scottish born artist now living in London. He trained at Croydon College of Art, St. Martin’s and the Royal Academy and initially pursued a varied career as a designer, before working full-time as a painter. He was inspired to create an artist’s book after a visit to the Sackner Collection of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami. His interest in this project grew out of a desire to paint a series of watercolor images to accompany extracts from Rimbaud’s Une saison en enfer, a work which had for a long time fascinated him. – Facts taken from a Pamphlet included with the book, which was exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum’s National Art Library in 1991. The pamphlet also contains the text of the book as well as the translation.
Related items: Artists' Books, Catalogue 37 - Summer 2009, Nicholas Rea